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Do you enjoy working with children? Do you have the skills to support their learning and development? Have you got a 'can-do' approach and outlook? At Newhall Primary Academy and Nursery, we are looking for Early Years Practitioner/Nursery Nurse who will work as part of our support staff team, across our Early Years provision, to support children in their learning and development, including those children with Special Educational Needs and for whom English may be an additional language. We are looking for someone who is up for getting stuck into all aspects of academy life!
About this Role
Are you passionate about nurturing young minds and making a positive impact on children's lives?If so, Newhall Primary Academy and Nursery have an exciting opportunity for you!
Working hours: 37 hrs per week, Monday - Friday
Working weeks: All year around, 25 days of paid holiday (plus Bank holiday)
Salary:NJC England & Wales Scp 5-6 £24,790 - £25,183 FTE + Outer Fringe Allowance £709 per annum
What we're looking for:
We welcome applications from candidates with experience from educational or other relevant childcare backgrounds. The successful candidate will be expected to hold (or be working towards) a minimum of a full and relevant Level 3 qualification in Early Years Education in line with DfE guidelines on ratios across the provision. We are looking for an individual who is able promote the physical, emotional, intellectual and social development of every child within our nursery. The successful candidate will work with colleagues in the nursery classes and create a stimulating, safe and caring teaching and learning environment.
Duties include:
- To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children place in the setting
- To work as part of a team, providing an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn
- To build and maintain strong partnerships, working with parents to ensure their child's/children's needs are met.
What we are looking for:
- An excellent practitioner, keen to work in a supportive and principle-based setting
- Driven by a strong moral purpose that enables all children to have integrity and achieve their best
- Passionate about creativity and have an excellent sense of humour
- Warm in character and easy to work with
- Committed to teamwork, recognising that more can be achieved together than it is possible as an individual task
- A professional who values wellbeing but is unafraid of hard work
- Calm and able to handle pressure and setbacks whilst still being able to smile
- Keen to be challenged in order to become the best you can be
- Able to be pushed at an accelerated rate of development, being reflective and proactive enough to make it happen
- Highly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, holding the strong expectation that all staff share this commitment also
This is a chance to be part of something exciting and very worthwhile. This opportunity will open doors both professionally and personally to anyone who joins our team.
For further information about the role come and visit our nursery! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the nursery office at nursery@newhallacademy.org. Visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.
Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.
For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.
All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.
The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.
Information about the School
Newhall is a new, 2-form, state of the art academy and nursery on the Newhall development in Harlow. The school has been built to accommodate 420 primary children (Reception to Year 6) and 56 nursery children (6 months to 4 years).
Our school and nursery are situated on vast grounds, incorporating sports fields, games courts and play areas. The main building itself offers a fully equipped curriculum kitchen for pupil use, a beautiful library, outbreak areas for interventions, a music and drama room and very well-resourced nursery rooms and primary classrooms.
All our staff have an excellent work ethic and deliver high quality learning opportunities for our polite and eager-to-learn children. We have a caring, family ethos coupled with high expectations and along with the Reach2 Academy Trust, we are able to provide high quality CPD for all who work here.
We look forward to having you join our Newhall family!